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“Giving robust careers guidance while improving student attitudes to work and boosting their basic employability skills are the most important elements in effective training for young unemployed people, according to colleges

“Inconsistent rules about what types of courses are funded, the availability of local jobs and the difficulties colleges have in tracking student progress are the biggest barriers to working effectively with the unemployed, say colleges..”

“It is particularly important that students are not encouraged by agencies to leave their college course in order to take up very short-term jobs, cutting short their training and their chances of sustainable employment.”

“Only a minority of employers offer work placements and where they do they tend to be provided for those in education and for schoolchildren in particular....

“The majority of those who are currently engaged are motivated for altruistic or philanthropic reasons....

“It is encouraging, however, that a fifth or employers claim that one of the reasons they are not involved is because no-one has approach them. This does suggest that there will be a significant minority of employers who could be immediately open to the idea of offering work placements.”

Providers have the right offer and incentives to get youth into sustainable work, progress through education or at work.

Customers are informed and able to make the right decisions for themselves or their businesses in full knowledge of the options available and the opportunities that they will open up.

Employers feel that that they have confidence in the system to provide them with the skilled people that they need; are aware of what the skills offer is; and are part of the process that will influence what is provided

Providers operate in a competitive commercial setting and there is no longer an incentive for some providers to promote and provide courses that secure the highest take up and pay the highest rates rather than address the greatest need or deliver the most economic needs.

Fantastic examples of world class provision and employer-led training.

The freedoms and flexibilities introduced means that providers across the system have been freed from regulations and bureaucracy to respond to employers and individuals needs (e.g. Employer Ownership of Skills fund)

But

Some courses have little employer backing, that fail to prepare the learner for work or add value to the economy.

There is duplication of provision, poor performance of contracts, limited oversight of how delivery meets the needs of employers and individuals

Significant disconnect between the skills we produce and the skills we need.